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<p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;">Ok, I understand.</p>
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<p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;">I've written parsers both as part of CS classes and in previous jobs, so I don't think this is outside my alley. I will go ahead and get Nepomuk built and patch one of the bugs to prove my worth.</p>
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<p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;">I have done some work on KDE in the past so that shouldn't be too hard at all.</p>
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<p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;">I can provide code samples also if you would like that. They might not be in C++ though, since I tend to write parsers in functional languages for class, but the ideas are the same. As for C++, I have lots of code in C and C++, but the best examples are probably from some of my operating systems code.</p>
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<p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;">Thanks,</p>
<p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;">Matthew McKeen</p>
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<p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;">On Thursday, April 11, 2013 07:00:38 PM Vishesh Handa wrote:<br /></p>
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<p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:40px; margin-right:40px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;">On Tue, Apr 9, 2013 at 12:58 PM, Matthew McKeen <<a href="mailto:mmckeen@ucla.edu"><span style=" text-decoration: underline; color:#0057ae;">mmckeen@ucla.edu</span></a>> wrote:<br /></p>
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<p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:46px; margin-right:40px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;">I just had an idea for a GSOC project today that might interest you. Wouldn't it be cool to have a visualization plasmoid for the data relationships that exist in Nepomuk. I was thinking a 3D graph visualization, maybe even making nodes clickable such that data can be navigated in a incredible new way. Nepomuk offers power that no desktop really has, and I think a cool new way to use that power could be a great addition to KDE. Eventually we could make these kinds of views a part of dolphin and offer a new way to navigate files.</p>
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<p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:40px; margin-right:40px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;">The idea seems nice, but right now, at least for Google Summer of code, I rather focus on directly usable improvements that can easily be integrated within existing applications.<br /><br /></p>
<p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:40px; margin-right:40px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;">That being said, it does sound quiet interesting. I'll be happy to help you in implementing this, if you want to do so. But not as a google summer of code project (or soc). We're very short on mentors for Nepomuk, and I don't think I can take more than 1 student this year.<br /><br /></p>
<p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:46px; margin-right:40px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;">If this doesn't fit the fancy of you guys, I am also happy to take on a proper rewrite of the Nepomuk query parser. I could probably even fit this work into my summer of coding, as it shouldn't take too long to rewrite that parser. </p>
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<p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:46px; margin-right:40px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;">Seeing that some other students have been taking over my other ideas, I thought that this idea might be a little more fresh and a good thing to base my proposal on, which I plan to draft soon.</p>
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<p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:40px; margin-right:40px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;">You might want to setup a KDE development environment and maybe look at some junior jobs and other tasks [1] I like to asses a student's coding capability before taking them on, no matter how good their proposal is.<br /><br />[1] <a href="http://community.kde.org/Projects/Nepomuk#Gettings_Stared"><span style=" text-decoration: underline; color:#0057ae;">http://community.kde.org/Projects/Nepomuk#Gettings_Stared</span></a><br /><br /></p>
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<p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:46px; margin-right:40px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;">What does the community think?</p>
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<p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:46px; margin-right:40px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;">Thanks,</p>
<p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:46px; margin-right:40px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;">Matthew McKeen</p>
<p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:46px; margin-right:40px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;">University of California, Los Angeles</p>
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<p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;"><br />_______________________________________________<br />Nepomuk mailing list<br /><a href="mailto:Nepomuk@kde.org"><span style=" text-decoration: underline; color:#0057ae;">Nepomuk@kde.org</span></a><br /><a href="https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/nepomuk"><span style=" text-decoration: underline; color:#0057ae;">https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/nepomuk</span></a><br /><br /></p>
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